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regarding flags

kishorepallapothula — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:53:30 GMT

Hi,

Anybody please let me know the purpose of flags and how to set flags and the help of using flags

regards,

kishore

Former Member — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:23:57 GMT

Flags are nothing but a single CHAR fields

We define them as SIngle char field s and use it in the code depending on the requirement.

it is just similar to a condition based value of a single char field

Regards

Anji

former_member189059 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:53:22 GMT

Hi,

Any time in a database, when u see the value 'X' in a single character field, that is nothing but a flag

it is used to mark certain things

for example in the t001 table, you will see many flags such as

XFMCO - Indicator: Project Cash Management active?

XFMCB - Indicator: Cash budget management active

XFMCA - Activate Update in Funds Management

as you can see by their description, they are used to indicate various things

to declare a flag as a variable or an internal table field is very simple since character type and one character length are taken as default

data: lv_flag,

By their declaration, flags can hold any character, however practically they only hold 'X' or ' '.

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Kris Donald

kishorepallapothula — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:01:39 GMT

hi thanks